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Overview

Call Number: SC0129

Creator:
Marx, Guido H., (Guido Hugo), 1871-1949.

Title: Guido H. Marx papers

Dates: 1893-1949

Physical Description:
7.5 Linear feet

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Gift of Barbara Marx Givan, 1966, 1986, and 1990.

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.

How to control public utilities.
Nation, v. 132, no. 3430, April 1, pp. 348-50.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Guido H. Marx was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1871. He attended Cornell University, earning the degree of mechanical engineer
in 1893. He worked in industry for two years before joining the Stanford faculty in 1895, at the instigation of Albert W.
Smith, his former professor at Cornell who, in collaboration with Guido's brother Charles D. Marx, was developing Stanford's
new School of Engineering. He became professor of machine design in 1908; he retired in 1936 with the rank of Professor Emeritus.

In addition to authoring a treatise on
Machine Design with Prof. Smith, his professional activities included research in the fields of gearing and bearing lubrication, advocating
vocational guidance for Stanford students, co-founding the American Association of University Professors, and holding office
in the American Federation of Teachers.

Prof. Marx was also actively involved in many political and social issues. In Palo Alto, he served on the planning commission
and the School Board and played an instrumental role in the construction of its first municipal power plant. In 1911 he and
Professor R.L. Green organized the local branch of the Progressive Party; Marx was the official delegate to its 1912 national
convention. He was active in the American Civil Liberties Union, especially around issues of labor organization and repeal
of the Criminal Syndicalism Law.

In 1895 Guido H. Marx married Gertrude Van Dusen, a member of the Cornell library staff; they had four children. He died in
1949.

Scope and Contents note

Additional papers were received in 1986 and 1990; they have been added to the collection as two addenda rather than interfiled
with the previously processed papers. Each addition has been identified by its accession number (86-179 and 90-188) and is
listed separately. When requesting materials from these additions, please indicate the accession number on the paging slip.

An index to selected correspondents in the entire collection is included in this guide, along with a listing of Guido Marx's
articles and reprints in Box 3.

SCOPE NOTE

The papers of Guido H. Marx include correspondence, speeches, a typed autobiography, reprints, press releases, clippings,
minutes, reports, and pamphlets, 1898-1949, and Marx's thesis from Cornell, A Study of Special Tools and Methods Used in the
Manufacture of Small Engines, 1893.

The papers document both his academic career at Stanford and his political interests. His academic life is represented by
correspondence with faculty, 1898-1905; reprints of his engineering and educational articles; and minutes, reports, and other
records from his departmental duties in the School of Engineering. His political life is represented by correspondence, speeches,
articles, and pamphlets pertaining to efforts to repeal criminal syndicalism laws, labor and unionization efforts, the Sacco-Vanzetti
case, cooperatives, and control of public utilities. Organizations appearing in his papers include the American Association
of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Federation of Teachers, the Pacific Co-operative
League, Inc., the National Popular Government League, the California State Water and Power League, and the People's Legislative
Service.

Arrangement note

The first ten boxes of the collection consist of the original papers that were received and arranged in 1966. Only the letters
in Box 1 were given full treatment, with incoming and outgoing letters arranged together chronologically. Other sections were
arranged or left as received, depending upon the accessibility of the original arrangement. In some cases, letters pertinent
to the subject were left in the appropriate folders rather than being integrated into the chronological arrangement.

Access Terms

American Association of University Professors..

American Civil Liberties Union.

American Federation of Teachers..

Baldwin, Roger N., (Roger Nash), 1884-1981.

Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977

Cooke, Morris Llewellyn,, 1872-1960.

Coolidge, Mary Roberts,, 1860-1945.

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.

Hayes, E. A., (Everis Anson), 1855-1942.

Hichborn, Franklin,, 1869-1963.

Hill, Albert Ross.

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

Jourdin, Willis W.

Lewis, Austin,, 1865?-1944.

Monroe, Paul,, 1869-1947.

National Popular Government League..

Norris, George W., (George William), 1861-1944.

Pacific Co-operative League, Inc..

People's Legislative Service..

Rolfe, Henry W.

Rowell, Chester H.

Sinclair, Upton,, 1878-1968.

Stanford University. School of Engineering. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;

Veblen, Thorstein,, 1857-1929.

Whitney, Anita,, 1867-1955.

Cooperative societies.

Criminal syndicalism.

Engineering--Study and teaching.

Public utilities--Law and legislation.

Public utilities.

Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.

Selected List of Correspondents

Addis, Thomas

Bailey, Forrest
90-188: Box 1, Folder 7-8, 10

Baldwin, Roger N.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 1, 3-5, 11

Benne, Adron A.
Box 4, Folder 1-2

Bjornson, Anga M.

Black, Marshall
86-179: Box 1, Folder 2, 12

Bliven, Bruce
90-188: Box 3, Folder 1

Browne, Andrew A.
Box 1, Folder 4

Cooke, Morris Llewellyn

Coolidge, Mary Roberts
90-188: Box 1, Folder 4-5

Copeland, Clement A.
Box 1, Folder 4

Dart, Anna C.

Dorfman, Joseph
Box 1, Folder 6

Durand, William F.

Farrand, Max
Box 1, Folder 4

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
90-188: Box 1, Folder 3

Frankfurter, Felix
90-188: Box 3, Folder 1

Garrison, J. C.
Box 3, Folder 9

Hayes, Everis A.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 3

Hichborn, Franklin

Hill, Albert Ross
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9, 11

Hoover, Herbert
Box 1, Folder 3

Hoover, Theodore J.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 10

Johnson, Hiram
Box 1, Folder 3

Johnston, Mercer G.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 2

Jones, Hubert C.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 7

Jordan, David Starr

Jourdin, Willis W.

Leidy, Emma Brown
Box 1, Folder 8

Lewinsohn, Joseph L.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 15-16

Lewis, Austin
90-188: Box 1, Folder 9

Monroe, Paul

National Popular Govt. League
Box 1, Folder 3

Norris, George W.
Box 1, Folder 2

Porter, Anna
Box 5, Folder 5

Roberts, Holland D.
Box 3, Folder 8-9

Robinson, Elmo A.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 4-5, 7

Robinson, James Harvey
86-179: Box 1, Folder 7

Rolfe, Henry W.
Box 1, Folder 4

Rowell, Chester H.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 11, 15

Saunders, Frederick A.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 10

Silliman, John C.
Box 6, Folder 3

Slosson, Edwin E.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9-10

Smith, Albert. W.

Solow, Herbert
90-188: Box 2, Folder 3

Stanley, Edward J.
Box 1, Folder 4

Steinmetz, Harry C.

Veblen, Thorstein
Box 5, Folder 4

Willoughby, Ray R.
Box 6, Folder 3

Wilson, Woodrow W.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9

Collection Contents

Original Papers1897-1949

Box 1, Folder 1

Correspondence1901-1912

Box 1, Folder 2

Correspondence1924-1926

Box 1, Folder 3

Correspondence1930-1949

Box 1, Folder 4

Correspondence from other Stanford faculty1898-1905

Box 1, Folder 5

Letters to his wife1912

Box 1, Folder 6

Letters between Joseph Dorfman and Marx1931-1935

Box 1, Folder 7

Criminal syndicalism correspondence1936

Box 1, Folder 8

Personal letters on retiring1936

Box 1, Folder 9

Speeches:

(1) Scientific management(1913 or 1914),

(2) A study of intelligence testing, with historical comment by Marx1926

Box 1, Folder 10

Speeches:

(3) The rational of public utility ownership(1930),

(4) War and the Conscientious Objector(1936),

(5) Education at times of crisis(1936),

(6) Engineering and social function (at New School),

(7) The Engineer and the Social Sciencesundated

Box 1, Folder 11

Speeches:

(8) Economic aspects of the ownership of public utilities(1938),

(9) The Scientific spirit in University Organization(1914),

(10) Production-- what ails it?(1920),

(11) Retrospect1924

Box 1, Folder 12

Speeches:

(12) Some phases of motor automation(1916),

(13) What do you propose to do about it?(1906),

(14) The aim of engineering education(1911),

(15) Untitled. Concerned with definition of an engineer and his values. Possibly Stanford Alumni Conference of 1935 (q.v.)
Power--From the Engineer's Viewpoint,

(16) Untitled

(17) A critical examination of certain objections to the affiliation of teachers with the American Federation of Teachers

Stanford publications with annotations by G.H. Marx: Trustees Manual, Organization, General Legislation, and Standing Regulations
of the Faculty, and Manual of Faculty Organization...and General Resolutions of the Board of Trustees,
1908; 1913; 1920

Box 1, Folder nf

Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. Report of the committee of inquiry concerning charges of violation of academic freedom...at the University of Montana. Vol.
III, No. 5
May 1917